A study of the statistics to this site shows that from across the world it receives an average of 3,000 visitors per week. There were over 700 visitors last Monday, March 1st, the date in 1981 when Bobby Sands commenced his...
Read MoreFormer republican prisoner Gerry O’Hare reviews the monumental study on Irish political prisoners (1848-1922) by Professor Sean McConville which covers the period of the imprisonment of O’Donovan Rossa, Tom Clarke and Roger...
Read MoreWe would like to apologise for the delay in updates in the past week or two. Due to serious computer problems and glitches we have not have access to emails and postings. We are still experiencing some problem which we hope to...
Read MoreThe comms of Bobby Sands and others, smuggled out of the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, particularly during the hunger strike, are now world famous, writes Gerry O’Hare. Far less well-known is that a republican prisoner, as long...
Read More‘Belfast’ is an alternative rock band based in Bergamo, Italy, and among the songs on their new CD is one called ‘Long Kesh’. Information about the band and this song (and a live YouTube performance) can be found here. Paolo...
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The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.